The purpose of this report is to expose that the men and women CLEC has worked to rescue throughout 2013 have all migrated under similar motivations, with similar but varying disastrous results. From January to December 2013, CLEC worked on more than 100 ongoing and new cases of labor trafficking and consulted with an estimated 300 families who have been involved with the process of both legal and illegal migration. From these cases, CLEC was able to compile a body of statistical and qualitative evidence that is presented here in an effort to understand the underlying complexities behind Cambodian labor migration. Our findings overwhelmingly supported the well-known ‘push’ theory, which argues that Cambodian migrants have chosen to migrate due to inadequate domestic wages and desolate employment opportunities at home. Furthermore, our findings show that many migrants choose this route even after learning of the risks – a telling fact that confirms how desperate the average Cambodian laborer is today.

Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM Cambodia) is a membership of CARAM Asia which has partners over twenty in South and Southeast in Asia. The State of Health of Migrants – Mandatory Testing Research is a production of CARAM Cambodia and it should be seen as tools for advocacy to decrease the vulnerability for STIs and HIV/AIDS of migrant workers. The research was jointly with CARAM Asia partners as regional and country level and the research has been focused on the process of testing procedures with Cambodian migrant workers who seeks employment in destination countries like Thailand, Malaysia, and Republic of Korea and so on in order to be friendly tested at testing center before departure to work abroad and while the staying in destination countries required annually test and perspective of receiving country while Vietnamese migrant sex workers in Cambodia.

To assist governments in their current efforts to place youth employment at the heart of respective political agendas and to provide information for the design and monitoring of effective policy responses, the ILO has developed its school-to-work transition survey (SWTS), a household survey of young people aged 15−29. The SWTS was implemented in 2012–13 in five Asian-Pacific countries, namely Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Samoa and Viet Nam. This analytical report summarizes the survey results in the five countries and highlights the main areas of policy concern. The report is intended for the use of the policy-makers and social partners involved in the implementation of national youth-related policies and programmes, as well as for international and non-governmental organizations involved in the development of responses at the regional level.

As part of the campaign against the worst forms of child labour for the wellbeing of Cambodian children, LICADHO and WVC have commissioned the research team, led by Dr. Poch Bunnak, to conduct a study on children working in brick factories. The study was conducted in July 2007 to identify the causes and consequences of child labour in brick factories in Battambang and Sang Ke districts, the surrounding areas of Battambang provincial city. Data were collected using interviewer-completed questionnaires from three main sources (132 child workers, 43 parents, and 15 brick factory owners or managers) from 26 brick factories. It is estimated that between 400 and 500 children work daily in these brick factories during the high labour-demand season.

This Report addresses the context of trafficking in human beings in Cambodia and the process by which trafficking victims are identified and assisted. Cambodia’s current anti‐trafficking field is crowded with various government, non‐government, and international institutions each administering its own response to the problem of trafficking and the challenge of victim assistance. It assesses the successes and shortcomings of different approaches to identifying victims, providing support services, and ensuring access to justice. This Assessment evaluates the viability of a national referral mechanism, whereby the diversity of approaches could be streamlined into a single cooperative framework. Ultimately, a national referral mechanism would strengthen Cambodia’s responsiveness to trafficking victims by providing standardized processes for victim identification, assistance, and referral therein replacing the inefficiency of competing approaches.